The Scientific and Technical Intelligence is one of the priority areas of activity for the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.
On October 26, 1925, F. Dzerzhinsky, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR, sent a proposal to the leadership of the Foreign Department of the OGPU to organize scientific and technical intelligence.
With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, more than a thousand secret materials (drawings, diagrams, descriptions, instructions, technical samples) were obtained and implemented in such fields as jet and high-speed aviation technology, radar detection technology, special chemistry, biological weapons protection, pharmacology, and nuclear energy.
Intelligence officers - heroes of Russia who made an invaluable contribution to the creation of domestic nuclear weapons were L. Kvasnikov, V. Barkovsky, A. Yatskov, A. Feklisov, M. and L. Cohens.
During the Cold War, scientific and technical intelligence focused primarily on ensuring national and international security based on nuclear parity with the United States and the advanced development of all types of weapons and military equipment.
Since 1991, scientific and technical intelligence has been one of the priority areas of intelligence activity for the Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service.
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